Jamaica, passed to be a colony of the United Kingdom in 1693 . It was important point of contact of great pirates; even there was a period where the authority of the island was of this social category. Towards 1953, a reform in the Monarquista Constitution of the country, allowed the election of a Head of Government, by means of indirect vote.

English period

In 1655 the Western Design, an English naval expedition sent by Oliver Cromwell under the command of the admiral William Penn and the general Robert Venables, occupied the island militarily, giving beginning to the period of English sovereignty on Jamaica.